Spear

2003-63-53

From: Liberia

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-63-53
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Liberia
Section African
Materials Metal | Wood
Description

Spear with a long, thin, socketed blade. The blade has a pronounced, medial ridge with series of horizontal marks toward the base and middle. The wooden shaft is sparsely painted with longitudinal lines in black and a thickened section of wood with a wide, copper-colored, metal ring above the ferrule. The short ferrule has circumferal bands etched above a flared, flattened, fin-like end with a copper-colored disc affixed toward the bottom. The fin-like end has a hammered texture.

Length 106.5 cm
Width 3 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1994.X.9955 - Other Number

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